one0nine:why the hell would his engineers tell him to stop on the frakking track after he just nailed the fastest time?

Not enough fuel in the car. You need to have a liter of it left in the tank so they can take a sample. And you need to make it to the pits after qualifying. Hamilton didn't have enough fuel to make it back to the pits and have that liter of gas in the tank.

Oh the tires are gonna be fun, the two options are soft and hard, not soft and medium or medium and hard. And apparently the soft tires last for crap this go around. Also Schumacher said the tires this season have been like driving on raw eggs.

Hamilton got a raw deal from the stewards. He should have been demoted to 10th, not 24th. Who's the driver steward this weekend? It's not Mustache Mansell, is it? (Mansell has openly said he believes Hamilton doesn't belong in F1 and his presents sets a bad standard. i.e. he doesn't like black people.)

soj4life:his crew and engineers should have calculated the amounts better.

Also the team shouldn't have lied about it. Their excuse for stopping him was a technical problem, but apparently they could manage to come up with a technical problem that would actually require stopping on the track and their story fell apart as the day went on.

digistil:Hamilton got a raw deal from the stewards. He should have been demoted to 10th, not 24th. Who's the driver steward this weekend? It's not Mustache Mansell, is it? (Mansell has openly said he believes Hamilton doesn't belong in F1 and his presents presence sets a bad standard. i.e. he doesn't like black people.)

I don't think Bob likes Bernie. Actually I don't think anyone on the broadcast team does.

That was actually Martin Bundle during his gridwalk.

soj4life:UNC_Samurai: Oh, I hope Pastor gets sideways on turn one and takes Fernando out of this race.

A five- or ten-place grid penalty would have been fine. This is absurd.

Well he broke the rule named him, his crew and engineers should have calculated the amounts better.

I know they've been warned about it specifically before (last year at Canada, IIRC), but to punish Hamilton worse than the teams that refused to participate in Q3 is patently ridiculous. That sends the message that it's better to just not try for the front.

WhyteRaven74:one0nine: why the hell would his engineers tell him to stop on the frakking track after he just nailed the fastest time?

Not enough fuel in the car. You need to have a liter of it left in the tank so they can take a sample. And you need to make it to the pits after qualifying. Hamilton didn't have enough fuel to make it back to the pits and have that liter of gas in the tank.

It turns out afterwards they had enough fuel to get back to the pits and give a litre for testing. But as this is Hamilton and not a Ferrari the book was thrown at him.

If they're going to have a single tire supplier they need to get rid of all the tire restrictions. No starting on your qualifying tires, no limits on how many pairs of tires you get for the weekend. Also Pirelli needs to start making better tires.

WhyteRaven74:If they're going to have a single tire supplier they need to get rid of all the tire restrictions. No starting on your qualifying tires, no limits on how many pairs of tires you get for the weekend. Also Pirelli needs to start making better tires.

The point of the current tyre restrictions is threefold.

1. Control costs. Every team cuts a cheque for the same amount for every race.2. To give more than just one optimal tactic.3. To make the racing more exciting.

The point is to make the actions of the team and driver on the day a very important. If your car or driving style is harder on the tyres than the next driver then tough luck, the flaws in your car or driver must be fixed or you will have to work around them on your tactics.

Norfolking Chance:1. Control costs. Every team cuts a cheque for the same amount for every race.

Change the deal so the teams get more tires. Which given what crap the softs apparently are is justified. As for strategy, if you let the teams pick whatever tires they want would make it interesting. I mean how would mediums do today? And if the tires are as touchy as they are, going to make picking wrong rather costly. Course in my mind having one tire supplier is dumb in the first place.